Someone notified me the other day that the trailer for the Watchmen movie was out. I viewed it three times, watched all the making-of video footage on the website, downloaded the Rorschach wallpaper, and more-or-less just hyperventilated. It’s impossible to convey to someone who never read the graphic novel just how exciting it is to finally see ( Read more... )

The other day I was suddenly hit by the urge to listen to the Myst III: Exile soundtrack, which I do not own (does it even exist on CD? if so, I need to buy it - after Queensrÿche’s “Operation:Mindcrime” and Vanden Plas’s “Christ 0”, which are apparently the two best concept albums in prog metal. Also Andromeda’s “Extension of the Wish”, if I can ( Read more... )

So Independence Day I went to a minor-league baseball game. It was fun (our mascot is a Sasquatch), but I couldn’t help noticing that every time the teams switched out, some hapless fan was dragged out onto the field to compete in a poorly conceived minigame with the sole purpose of promoting some corporate sponsor. Now, I’m sure everyone who’s ( Read more... )

 This [Simon & Garfunkel’s “America”] may very well be the truest song ever written.
“Kathy, I'm lost,” I said, though I knew she was sleeping
I'm empty and aching and I don't know why
Counting the cars on the New Jersey turnpike
They've all gone to look for America
Well. A better picture of our culture never existed.

Short history recap: as the United ( Read more... )